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    Three major religions have ties to Southwest Asia. All three of those religions also have ties to one city, Jerusalem. The three religions are Judaism, Christianity, and finally Islam. The people who practice Judaism are called Jews, the people who practice Christianity are called Christians, and the people who practice Islam are called Muslims. All of these religions are widely practiced in Southwest Asia. They all are alike in some ways and different. Judaism started in a desert in Southwest

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    Norman Daniel in Islam and the West: The Making of an Image, writes about medieval Christian polemicists viewed Islam with horror. While they did not have authentic information to base their research on, Daniel claims that their beliefs are biased against Muslims based on what they considered Muslims were like, and as a means of attacking Islam on spiritual and moral grounds. He writes that “these opinions are not Muslim opinions at all; both right and wrong, they are a collection of Western beliefs

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    Worldview/Religion Analysis of Islam By Elizabeth Case Student ID: L6924379 Presented to: Dr. Raymond Johnson In partial fulfillment of the requirements of Introduction to Apologetics APOL 500 Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Lynchburg, VA April 3, 2011 Worldview/Religion Analysis of Islam Summary of Islam The Arabic term Islam literally means “surrender” or “submission”. The followers of Islam, known as Muslims (from the active participle of Islam), accept or surrender

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    Islam and Christanity Conflicts When you are born into a world in which the two biggest religions on the globe are fighting the same battle they have been fighting for a thousand years you start to question the belifs of these two religions. If they both preach peace, why do we get war? I wonder what Jesus or Muhammad would say if they were alive today. Christanity, Islam, and Judaism are three of the most closely related religions in the world because they all see Abraham and other patriarcal

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    first, then Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and finally Islam. Hinduism and Buddhism are considered Eastern religions while Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered Western. Both Eastern religions began in India, although Buddhism later moved out. The Western religions each developed, at different times, in the same general geographical and cultural setting of West Asia: Judaism and Christianity, in and around the area now known as Israel, in the Middle East; Islam on the Arabian Peninsula in

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    Islam is the second largest religion in the world after Christianity. There are around 1.5 billion Muslims the world. It is very unfortunate that there are a lot of misconceptions about Islam, the media has always tells the bad side of Islam it gives a lot of negative image to the Muslim people around the world. The reason I select this topic so I can tell to my class mates the reality of how we are rather than being portrayed by the media and the alt-right. Islam word means peace or surrender. It

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    The spread of Christianity in Western Europe was both similar and different to the spread of Islam. The rise of Islam starts with the Prophet Muhammad, believed by Muslims (followers of Islam) to be the last in a line of prophets that includes Moses and Jesus. Because Muhammad was the chosen one to be the messenger of the word of God, Muslims from all around the world work to follow the example he set. For Muslims after the Qur 'an (their bible), the sayings and teachings of Muhammad and the descriptions

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    Most Cherished Beliefs Beliefs are vital in Islam. Proper beliefs about God, the universe, and humanity is the number one concern to Muslims. The Quran, the sacred text of Islam states, "Righteous is he who believes in Allah and the remaining Day and the Angels and the Scriptures and the Prophets.” Believing in these concepts, as well as many others, are essential to Muhammad's followers, each past and present. Similar to Judaism and Christianity, Islam also teaches that there is one god in the universe

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    The five pillars of Islam are faith, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage. The five pillars are practices Muslims must follow to be a devout Muslim. The pillars are the structure of Muslim life. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are three monotheistic religions that all compare in faith, prayer, and fast. Faith, prayer, and fast are three of the five pillars of Islam that are not exclusive to Islam, but present within Christian and Jewish beliefs and practices. The pillar of faith, or Shahadah

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    The marriage of a man and woman within the Jewish community symbolizes the completion of what God created and the unity He intended when creating man and woman, perfection. II. Christianity: The Structure of Christian Ethics. Can you reach Heaven on faith alone? Are doing good deeds enough to get into Heaven? Christianity is not just a religion of good deeds, or faith, but both of them. “Christians of all Gerry 5 stripes have long believed that true faith and good deeds are one and the same”

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